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Our Very First Dttr Vinyl release! Plus two New Releases from NYC and Greece

2011-12-13T10:47:00.001-08:00

Here they are...Hot off the Presses!

A brand spanking new Garm solo record!!!

B.R. Garm – The 78th Morning Tide – Vinyl LP - dttr 025

Here it is our first vinyl release. B.r. Garm is a member of Visitations and founder and owner of our local universe “Strange Maine”. The “78th morning tide” is truly a fantastical listen that is simultaneously foreboding and inviting. Side A opens with the title track and is a complete psychedelic journey unto itself, followed by a lady losing her mind and smokin’ on rainbows, a face off with Jesus and the devil, a tale of Windham Maine, a bombed out apocalyptic country song and a fuzzed out doomy cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald”. Side B begins with “Can You Feel It” which sounds like a loners take on Damo era Can. Followed rapidly by a duo of songs that cover the apocalypse and getting stoned, a song that sounds as if Black Sabbath never made it out of the bedroom, a sort of childs prayer called “So Many Men” (which we got to play on!), a deceivingly dark folk song called “Pretty Red Pony”, and finally a truly haunting and beautiful song called “At The End of The World”. Locked grooves end both sides! This whole record is a complete joy to listen too, infectious and hard to get off the record player. One of our all time favorites! This is Garm’s second release on dttr (other releases can be found on Mangedisc, and Time-Lag). Cover artwork by Hillary Irons, printed on thick old style jackets, accompanied by a pamphlet with lyrics and chords for those who want to play along. Limited to 500 copies.

Chuck Bettis - Urgency Renewal – CD-R - dttr029

A brand new release from longtime collaborater/tourmate and great friend Chuck Bettis . On “Urgency Renewal” Chuck masters the art of spontaneous composition, pieces flow interrupt themselves and generally feel like a punch in the mouth, graceful yet archaic. A brilliant album. Here’s how chuck described “Urgency Renewal” “solo electronic music recorded in various NY locations between 2010-2011, it's fucked up and raw!“ ABSOLUTELY NO OVERDUBS!!!(Chuck has collaborated with a slew of great folks and released many albums on various labels including Tzadik (brown wing overdrive), and dischord (meta-matics, all scars)))) Handmade and screen printed

art work by Colleen Kinsella (20 songs - 53 minutes)

Dead Gum – Doubleganger – CD-R - dttr 031

Dead Gum is the solo project of Panagiotis Spoulos (other projects of his include: Reverse mouth, Wham Jah, Postblue, and running Phase! Records), from Athens, Greece. This past summer we toured with Dead Gum in Greece and we were blown away every night. Doubleganger is quite a journey, the constant thread seems to be loner style electric guitar that feels like the end of it all … quite, desolate, brutal, noisy, and 100% sincere. Handmade screen printed Art work by Colleen Kinsella (10 songs – 38 minutes)

All are posted up on our Etsy!

Coming real soon...

2011-11-18T06:06:00.000-08:00

We are slowly but surely getting our DTTr stock ready to post along with our very first Vinyl release B.R. Garm!!!
The records & jackets arrived last week. They look and sound amazing.
here's a teaser of a track from B.R. Garm's 78th MorningTide No. 25 in our catalogue:
here

CDR's & tapes coming out from Dead Gum from Athens, GR, Chuck Bettis from NYC, The Agrarians from Baltimore and 1 or 2 new Big Blood releases. Whew! that's alot, I'm tired already!!
++++Plus restocking of old favorites on our DTTR page- including books and 7"'s from Inspector 22.
Eternal otter Records and Space are realeasing Treble Treble Vol.3. It's a compilation of Maine bands including a track from us and two of our favorite Maine bands Village of Spaces and Kent.
Also it's pressed on BLUE vinyl w/ artwork by C. Kinsella.
Big Thanks to all of our friends families and psychic friends during this wacky holiday season. Occupy your minds!

BIg Blood, Prisma & Phantom Buffalo @ Maine College of Art, ICA Tomrrow night 8-9:30

2011-10-12T12:41:00.000-07:00

In the front room of Maine College of ART's ICA Gallery there is a two week installation complete w/ couches, posters and a turntable for you to use and peruse the array of great records from Time lag Records founded and run by artist Nemo Bidstrip from Portland, Maine.

Time-Lag Records Listening Room

October 12 – 26, 2011

Opening reception for Time-Lag Records will take place on Thursday, October 13th from 6 - 8pm.

Live Music from 8-9:30pm with Prisma, Phantom Buffalo, & Big Blood

Time-Lag Records is an independent label that started in 2000, with a focus on vinyl releases that combine the highest possible quality production with an emphasis on the aesthetic of the object itself, and a deep love of interesting, unusual, and undiscovered music, both new and old. Come explore their full archive of vinyl artifacts and cds, as well as a 10+ year collection of poster art from concerts – all from the comfort of couches lining the gallery.

September 30th Big Blood and the Wicked Hex, Garm, and Inspector 22

2011-09-13T11:24:00.000-07:00

The Oak & the Ax, a lovely venue in downtown Biddeford will be hosting
"Ruins"
A merging of Art & Performances by DTTR label mates Inspector 22 and Garm will begin the fun. Ending with Big Blood & the Wicked Hex.
New drawings and prints by Colleen Kinsella of Big Blood.
It all starts at 8pm for $8!

the Oak & the Ax
104 Main St. - Back Alley
Biddeford, Maine 04005

Wicked Hex download up on WFMU's Free Music Arcvies

2011-09-07T18:08:00.000-07:00

IT's Up! go and git it

WICKED HEX LP update

2011-08-26T08:36:00.000-07:00

The Wicked Hex LP is an edition of 350. Caleb will be uploading it to the FMA archives on our page with WFMU as soon as he can!

Thank you in Pictures... Part 1

2011-08-14T20:31:00.000-07:00

The experimental Trip/Tour/Vacation was so wonderful, crazy and unforgettable.
We want to thank every single person who helped make it happen, fed us, housed us, hung out, played songs, gave directions....we made it home safe and filled with new inspiration for art, music and life.

Work doesn't suck as much when you can imagine: Athen's heat on a rooftop as the sun sets over the Acropolis, surrounded by friends, playing oscillators, performing burial rites eating homemade phyllo dough...or after the "show", watching a goat farmer spin a chair on one end while we screen print t-shirts off people's back while a French -Brazillian marching band plays the live soundtrack.

Thanks a ton to S-Baby CC Brother Oak ! You kept the coffee and the laughs coming while beating the skins and turning the knobs.
Europe 2011!

Tom K playing in St. Clet in the North of France...THE craziest night/party I have ever been to!
"Leviathan Song" Exhibition at S.I.X. Dogs, Athens, Greece

more pics of the show here....

...writing excerpts from Against His-Story, Against Leviathan by Fredy Perlman.
Thanks to Panagiotis and Sophia for making it all possible.

Sophia of Athens... my favorite Greek lady
Island of Syros, Capitol of the Aegean Islands

ORILA Rooftop Show put on Yannis and Visilas
the brains behind Reverse Mouth + Dead Gum+ Phase! Records Athens, Greece

New LP! Big Blood & The Wicked Hex fresh outta Athens, Greece

2011-07-15T14:32:00.000-07:00

YASSAS!
Greece Rules!!

Phase!Records has done it again! We are No. 83 in this awesome label's catalogue."Big Blood & The Wicked Hex" 300 Limited Edition LP's (hand screen printed) with S. Br. Oak on drums.

This release is a first glimpse at our more electric sound, true to what we've been playing around Spain France & Greece.

Write Phase!Mag @ http://phasemag.blogspot.com/ to purchase the LP.

It's so gorgeous... 2 color screen print in beige and black...done by Mihalis, Panagiotis and Sophia of Dead Gum & Reverse Mouth at Mephisto Studio/Printing Co. in Athens Greece.

below is a review of us by George in Thessaloniki, Greece. I used Google translate so you get what you get. George is extremely eloquent and google translate is not.
What a night....

The fact that July 4 was the day of independence, the one year since the creation of the blog and the birthday of writer apparently have little importance. What is really worth mentioning on July 4, 2011 is the emergence of American Big Blood in Thessaloniki, in a rare appearance from all views (as there is a band that appears very often live) that will leave many memories to those who had the privilege to attend.

The initial consultation that we betrayed the pleasure to appear before us the "Executive" twin band Caleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella. Fortunately, our luck goddess smiled, and this terrible duo sided and Brother Oak on drums making the whole concert experience even more rare!

Everything seemed perfect package, so a little after 22:30 the Athenian Dead Gum took his guitar doing an introduction to the rituals that akolouthouse.Prosopika I had not come back into contact with the music of Dead Gum, or more generally to the genre representing therefore I am more likely to be the judge. It certainly could not tell it is cold electric landscapes created by the music and are able to create an extremely claustrophobic and moody atmosphere! I do not know if it was his best show or not, but certainly adorned with the presence of this particular event.

THE hour had arrived 23:00 hopefully when Big Blood took their seats and started somewhere everything! Some might expect an acoustic show by the band and would not blame them, as they have some acoustic music compositions highest quality, yet they themselves chose to give us a more electrically charged show that certainly does not bother me any! With a new album in baggage (the really wonderful and highly collectible "Big Blood & The Wicked Hex") and plenty of fun traveled the more than 100 people filled the admittedly small area of Fuzz Bar in a world of psychedelia! The same seemed to enjoy giving it 101% of their energy and experiencing really playing every note! Personally, I would like to dwell on the stunning voice of Colleen Kinsella, a voice with a rare metal that brought me to mind a great voices of American folk and country music and where the live performance was a huge surprise!"Oh Country". As for their set I was not personally complained, although I would love to hear the beloved at least for me "Oh Country". "She Sells Sanctuary" Compensated, however, and the above fact, the incredibly emotional performance of "She Sells Sanctuary" which captivated everyone!

Some live there would never be finished, but as all good things always end after about 70 minutes the Big Blood farewell our having left the best impression at all (and having left the window open I hope to return for a show still in future). Tip to those who buy the new album the band to do so immediately as once again deliver quality music lessons!

First and best in the same band for the rare opportunity given us to see it live. Big thanks to natural Fuzz Bar hosted this special event, to Panagiotis Spoulo, Alexandros Alexandridis and Lena Latinopoulou for valuable help and of course all of you who supported this event. But the biggest thank Costas deserves Kilymis to whom we owe in large part this evening (if there actually was he would not ypircheo this live)!He was the mastermind and helped greatly to live this night musical greatness that is at least personally I will remember for a very long time!

shows shows and shows

2011-05-31T09:28:00.001-07:00

ALICANTE NEWS BLOG, en espanol!

6|8|11 Alicante, Spain Big Blood + Thérèse

Concierto del grupo norteamericano Big Blood ("Folk solitario, herido, privado...") y de la alicantina Thérèse ("folk extraño e intimista evolucionado hacia una locura absolutamente indefinible por encantadora").

Big Blood

Big Blood son Colleen Kinsella y Caleb Mulkerin, ex componentes de las bandas Cerberus Shoal y Fire on Fire, ambas referentes dentro del folk-rock experimental norteamericano. Br Oak se une a ellos con sus prehistóricas percusiones para la que será su primera gira Europea.

Su música se fragua predestinada a una oscura y apocalíptica celebración, llena de chillidos de hienas y lamentos de sirena, como si Lovecraft se uniera a Dead Moon y se unieran a Jefferson Airplane. Voces densas, caóticamente hermosas, y un frenético juego instrumental desde la impía costa de Maine.

“Feroz, psicodélico, y vengativo” - Michael Gira. “Estos dos tienen una forma de cantar sus sencillas canciones con un abandono y una discordancia tales, que al final todo se funde en una perfección devastadora y primaria. " - Brainwashed. “Su música, en principio estructuralmente simple y atmosférica, resulta absolutamente hermosa en un sentido absolutamente extraño y retorcido, sombrío, oscuro” - Progmother. “Folk solitario, herido, privado… Como si de un rabioso motorista se tratara, ya tarde en la noche, concebido y forjado bajo un corrompido y complejo sentimiento de industria post-militar” - Volcanic Tongue.

Thérèse es el alter ego musical de la alicantina Nerea Pérez Álvarez. Colaboradora habitual de distintas bandas locales, inicia su proyecto en solitario, precisamente, tras conocer y convivir durante varios meses con los miembros de Cerberus Shoal, en su gran casa azul de Portland, Maine. Claramente influenciada no sólo por su música, sino, sobre todo, por su forma de entender el conjunto del proceso creativo, y cada vez más consciente de la necesidad de desvincularse de toda atadura conceptual, su folk extraño e intimista ha ido evolucionando en los últimos años hacia una locura absolutamente indefinible por encantadora. Prueba de ello es su último trabajo, Impermeable, grabado a medias entre Estados Unidos y España, y editado bajo el sello independiente Don’t trust the ruin. Un simple juego entrus...

Two Days and counting...

2011-05-29T19:00:00.000-07:00

St. Clet on the 17th....

Leviathan Song
Solo exhibition of prints by artist and musican Colleen Kinsella
Aug 1-6th @ Six Dogs, Athens Greece

NEWS from Us...

2011-05-10T16:06:00.000-07:00

Europe is only a few weeks away!! Here's the tour poster for email promotional purposes. Download it if you like! There have been many changes to the scheduele so please check in when you can.

We'd also like to pass on....
PRISM index is looking for some help with his next issue which happens to feature music by Big Blood & art by Colleen Kinsella. There a terrific Kickstarter by Jeff which explains just how awesome, in depth and sprawling PRISM index is. If you can give a little or a lot you will get serious goodies while supporting a unique handmade print and media publication. C'mon Now!

Also on the art scene...If you happen to live in Portland or will be in town between now and
June 5th, come see the Portland Museum of Art's 2011 Biennal.

APRIL 30th: BIG BLOOD in Belfast @ The Free Range Festival!!!!

2011-04-14T18:36:00.000-07:00

We are playing at 2:00pm with Shonny Bro and VoC @ First Church, 8 Court St

Other players of note: Asa Irons @ 11:45am Aarhus Gallery

Ancestral Diet @ 12:45pm Colonial Theatre

Cave Bears @ 3:15pm Waterfall Arts

Micheal Hurley @ 6:45 Colonial Theatre

Grass Widow @ 8:00pm First Chruch

go here for the full scheduele and links to the peeps who are playing! Northern Maine Rules!

NEW! Alex Lukashevsky - Prints of Darkness DTTR 028

2011-04-05T18:07:00.000-07:00

Alex Lukashevsky - Prints of Darkness DTTR 028

Alex Lukashevsky is the founder and leader of one of our generations true hidden gems "Deep Dark United" and has been a constant favorite at our house for the last 10 years (in fact on Asian Mae's album DTTR 001 there are two Lukashevsky covers!). Alex's music seems to exist in it's own sphere completely outside of trend and agenda, though thats not to say that you know what your gonna get when you hear one of his albums, as each outing is it's own universe.

On "Prints of Darkness" the world created is truly surreal, playing out Like a long lost Alice Coltrane album.

We are proud as parents to put out the latest from the greatest, our friend and composer

P.s. we've restocked our etsy dontrustheruin.etsy.com also new to the site are big blood "dark country magic" cassettes.

...and we are NOT operating any Facebook pages or profiles. If you write us there we won't get yer messages. for direct contact: bigblood24@yahoo.com

peace

Double Vinyl...Radio Valkyrie

2011-03-10T23:30:00.000-08:00

working on printing the artwork for Foxy Digitalis's release of "Radio Valkyrie 1907-1915"

go here to get a sonic preview of one track from the records.
Mostly 4 track originated experiments ...

Europe here we come!!

2011-01-23T15:56:00.000-08:00

We are planning a small tour of Spain, France, Italy & Greece
somewhere in June & July 2011.
If you have any interest or info about shows or festivals
please contact our friend Jorge below

EU Bookings
Jorge Páez @ Hell Yeah
jorge@wearehellyeah.com

Here's To the New Year ... an Odd One

2011-01-06T15:07:00.000-08:00

New Releases + 4 YRS + Screen Prints + Wood Stove = Pre School

2010-12-07T20:33:00.000-08:00

4 years of big blood, who celebrates their 4 year anniversary? we do. our new release "dark country magic" Can be purchased here:dontrustheruin or downloaded for free here:WFMU FMA

also our band with s. br. oak called "dark urRru" just released a split cassette with our great friends WaterFinder on the AMAzInG Peasant Magik Label... and that can be purchased here

Dontrustheruin at Space Gallery & Picnic Arts

2010-11-26T10:40:00.000-08:00

We'll be selling our wares at Picnic! Come by and get your 4 year anniversary album!!!!!

NEW RELEASES ON CD-R and TAPE

2010-11-02T18:29:00.000-07:00

available at tomentosarecords.com

& etsy dontrustheruin

***Available in 10 Days! We are commemorating our 4 year anniversary with a tape/CD-r Release:

until then here are 5 NEW releases.

owl head wooden man/night music liftedness pt. 2

dttr 021 CASSETTE

owl head wooden man and night music team up again for part 2 in their on going liftedness series.

the owl head wooden man (aka s br. oak) side consists of 4 blown out, fuzzed out pieces. while the night music side unfolds with collage, abstraction, noise and song. each side compliments the other in an unending cycle. amazing late night listening

big blood operators and things dttr 023 CD-R/CASSETTE

REISSUE - originally released on peasant magik (pm50) as part of a 3" cdr box set in the spring of 2010...

inspector 22 - Friends In High Places

dttr 020 CD-R/CASSETTE

The third release by Inspector 22 on dttr, his best yet for sure! On This one we find mr. todd wesley emmert in more a repetitive sprawling form. 11 genius songs... family, god, stigmata and the devil weigh in as major themes. a house favorite for sure!

russian tsarlag/human adult band split

dttr 026 CD-R/CASSETTE

This one is a scorcher! first up russian tsarlag creates a twisted realm. 5 hypnotic and brilliant songs.. lulling, surreal and completely cracked! I could listen to this over and over.

Human adult band deliver their one of a kind ear bending sludge straight from planet boombox to you. If you have seen them live or heard their records you know what your getting into... for the uninitiated, now is as good a time as ever.

tarpigh - asiatic potters

dttr 018 CD-R/CASSETTE

three loping songs from one of our all time favorite bands. razor sharp guitars , synth, bells, pump organ and throbbing percussion all weave and tell there tale on this masterful album by one of portland maine's best kept secrets!

Big Blood - She Sells Sanctuary

2010-10-27T13:35:00.000-07:00

there have been no current blog postings because...

2010-10-19T17:45:00.000-07:00

2010-09-14T21:18:00.000-07:00

Summah II

2010-08-20T19:00:00.000-07:00

Reviews and if anyone cares...

2010-08-12T10:40:00.000-07:00

While searching for reviews of our new album, I found a few sites with Dead Songs, up for free download.
While we are all for sharing music and making it available to everyone, Dead songs is different from the music we release here at Dontrustheruin.
Every album we've made so far for free from WFMU here:

Time Lag Records invested alot in our album, making this our first proper release on vinyl and cd. It was and is a totally awesome experience to work with Nemo.
So in the interest of supporting a small (local, for us) business that does great things we ask that people stop putting Dead Songs up for download (and using Nemo's review!). Go here to buy it from the source.

Look at the shiny bowls and read this lovely review
and this one...
and this one
and thisone

Summah....

2010-08-10T10:31:00.000-07:00

another video by some one we don't know ...

2010-08-01T22:00:00.000-07:00

2010-07-30T07:01:00.000-07:00

a lovely video by someone we don't know...

Big Blood PLaying tomorrow !! with Village of Spaces, Mother of Fire & Callers

2010-07-26T12:20:00.000-07:00

Here's the show poster I made for the RI show. Thanks for sending this photo Susan.

TOM K, VILLAGE of Spaces Corners & MOther of Fire

2010-07-20T19:07:00.000-07:00

BIG Blood Show Providence , RI

2010-07-14T12:22:00.000-07:00

Big Blood is playing on July 27th in Providence, RI @ Building 16 with Mother of Fire, Callers and our personal favorite Village of Spaces Corners--formerly Uke of Spaces Corners
Come and hear us all!!

DEAD SONGS एंड ...

2010-06-30T21:12:00.000-07:00

Thanks again to Time Lag Records! The LP's rule in beauty and quality thanks to Nemo!

( This is my first 12" vinyl release so deal with my enthusiasm and exclamation points!!!!)
good review: here

On Tuesday July 6th at APOHADION Theatre Horse Spirit Pentrates will explode themselves along with Genesis Climber both from WMASS, Shonny Baby CryCry(dark urrru, br. oak, deceh), and Asian Mae(big blood, fire on fire, dark urrru)!!

Shon and I will close out the evening...Caleb said he'd play on some songs with me and I said I'd play a song with Shon, so a bit of a mash up!

Loudies: HPS and G Climber will be playing first due to noise restrictions so don't be late!!

Starts after 8pm $7 suggested -- for the touring bands and the awesome Apohadian

thanks in advance!!!!!!!

DEAD SONGS LP & CD out now on Time Lag

2010-06-23T19:49:00.000-07:00

These LP's and cd's are so gorgeous thanks to Nemo of Time Lag Records
These images are from the series and inspired by the so PO statues....

DTTR tapes

2010-05-28T17:58:00.000-07:00

This is a tease...we are not quite yet ready to sell these puppies...

If you're like us driving around in car w/ a cassette deck then hear's sweet music to your ears...

T A P E S !

All Big Blood releases available as well as Garm, Uke of Spaces, Br. Oak and Inspector 22.

They're lovely, hand screen printed and cute as hell.

against history

2010-05-17T21:03:00.000-07:00

this is what an oil slick looks like
(A photo essay link sent from a friend in Louisiana.)

New 10 x 10 series on panel

2010-05-04T13:52:00.000-07:00

some were sold, some were traded and some are going up for sale on etsy

post posts

2010-04-28T18:44:00.001-07:00

Caethua =Clare Hubbard & Andy Neubaur

from Sunday night @ the Apohadian

April 25th and on Saturday the 24th the Belfast free Range FEST

2010-04-22T18:08:00.000-07:00

The Pheonix wrote the CAETHUA/VIALKA show up!

so i thought i'd include some of my fav youtubes of Caethua...

and Vialka

4.25.10 BadAss Ladies(& Gents) at the APoHADion Theatre, Portland, ME

2010-04-19T11:00:00.000-07:00

CAETHUA- creepy lovely wicked haunting songs and killer words.

Clare & Andy are so many things. they usually play as Ancestral Diet. On the 25th they perform Caethua songs and who knows what.

we love these folks.

Vialka -French/Canadian spaz-prog bass & drums duo

Amazing energy, vocals and more surprises from Marylise Frenchville & Eric Boros >

Also Septic Bandaid plays...

And Also too... Crank Sturgeon em cee's the evening

Apohadian Theatre

107 hanover st

Portland, Maine

APRIL 17th : COllaboration: Big BLood + Chuck Bettis, 10 (from Japan) & IDM THeft Able At the Aphodion

2010-04-12T20:35:00.000-07:00

10 is from JAPAN ...their first US Tour and our dear NYC/DC tour buddy Chuck Bettis of the All Scars, Measles, Mumps Rhubella...) will be collaborating with us(Big Blood) along with Shonny baby (who accomapanied us at space on the 20th with killah drums.)

IdM TheftAble will be blowing our minds with a piano set!!!

All at the Apohadian 107 Hanover ST Portland, ME in our tiny "Warehouse District".

Come out and see live wackness and support Apohadian Awesomeness!

2010-04-06T07:24:00.000-07:00

Dark UrrrU on the 30th

2010-03-18T09:57:00.000-07:00

Dark Dark Dark with Hersey State, Dark Urrru

Space Gallery

Tuesday 03.30.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+

DTTR goes Etsy

2010-02-26T19:58:00.000-08:00

Caleb started an Etsy for our CDR's and soon to be released... Tapes!!

Check us out!

Asian Mae, Hobgoblin & Thunderbow At Mayo street arts this Saturday!!

2010-02-16T18:40:00.000-08:00

Thunderbow is Adinah Barrnett of Batshelter playing her own creation... The Thunderbow

Asian Mae is me. 1/2 of Big Blood with alot of guitars singing and some drums.

Hobgoblin has fellas from Clown School Dropouts, Harpswell Sound and bunch of other bands.

They are rumored to have smoke and bubble machines...

2010-02-10T22:44:00.000-08:00

videos.... an experiment

2010-02-04T08:44:00.000-08:00

this is a darkly lit video of "Hole in One" From the Sahara Club/Space Gallery Cdr release. We were playing a show in Northampton at Danimal's King St. Manor...and our friend Danimal made this video. Thanks dude!

Listening to Records Part II

2010-02-02T12:00:00.000-08:00

Soooo here's a new 7" of our old band Cerberus Shoal from waaaaaay back in 2003-2004 era when we were doing a theatrical performance of An Ongoing Ding...a response/continuation of the first "Ding". They were both poems written by a sharp cookie named Karl Greenwald.

We sent the song to Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls and Alvarius B. He liked it and agreed to put out a collaborative record with us(Cerberus Shoal). It's called The Vim and Vigour of Alvarius B and Cerberus Shoal.

This record is part of a series of 7"'s put out by Eternal Otter Records run by Panda Bandits Will & Alicia. They put on a show at Space Gallery to celebrate the release of these records. All of the 7" in the series are really good. Get em' all. The Blaque Boose one is awesome!!

Caleb and I made this wierd helmet with C-shoal photos on the inside. Folks who came to the show at Space were supposed to listen to the 7" while wearing the helmet. some photos are below.

About Ding & An Ongoing Ding...Cerberus Shoal set the poem to music and... voila! Out came the first Ding. Listen here

I guess?. it's last FM and i still can't figure out bloggin' except to post links gracefully.

Speaking of...anyone reading this that knows how to embed youtube in our blog HELP! PLease!

This record is part of a series of 7"'s put out by Eternal Otter Records run by Panda Bandits Will & Alicia.

Listening to Records...

2010-01-30T19:22:00.000-08:00

and thinking... which leads to this...

This Wednesday....Big Blood + Br. Oak = Dark UrrrU

2010-01-20T18:04:00.000-08:00

January 27th, 2010

S. Portland, ME

158 Pickett Street Bakery

Dark-UrrrU

(Big Blood meets S. Br. Oak meets Crass)

Uke Of Spaces Corners

(Belfastian Upliftedness)

Deep Egypt

8pm $5 sugg.

Bro Oak is here

2010-01-05T19:11:00.000-08:00

You can get Psychic Sun Shine from dontrustheruin records and from Tomentosa records

Time Lag is also distributing our friend Br. OAK

Caleb is currently mixing Brom "Garm" Garmin's LP at our house. I am listening to it.
This will be our first vinyl release.
Dontrustheruin released a "Garm" CD titled Zeros back in the Early days of Big Blood

so it only seems fitting that we release our first LP with him.

Vic Chesnutt and me

2009-12-29T14:19:00.000-08:00

Vic Chesnutt died on Christmas. Among many odd and inspiring songs, he wrote a great song off of his first album "Little" about Isadora Duncan.

I saw him in 2001 in Austin at SXSW.

Cerberus Shoal was booked to play the TRL label showcase for 45 minutes after a disturbing Oxbow performance. We had just finished our set. We were feeling raw and weird. (South by Southwest is comparable to a meat market for musicians.)

I saw that Vic was playing right then at the Billiard Room a few blocks away. I cut out of the Cafe and ran like hell. That night was chaos. People everywhere looking like Steven Tyler and Lita Ford. Ike Turner was playing a comeback show next door. Lee Scratch Perry was on stage down the street. Wesley Willis was performing in some boardroom # 404. When I finally got to the venue, I convinced the bouncer that I was supposed to be there. He let me in.

Climbing the stairs I was blown away by the scene in front of me. The bar couldn't be any more different from where we had just played. Everything was gleaming gold and green. The bar was an enormous island in the middle of a vast sea of heads. About a dozen active pool tables were scattered throughout the venue. Vic wasn't on stage yet. I proudly celebrated my luck with a rare beer and pushed my way to the front of the stage. Tina Chesnutt, Vic's wife, brought him onstage. I could have touched him--not that I would ever touch a person while performing!

A blonde cocktail waitress brought him a beer --per his request and got pissed when he didn't pay her. He hadn't a dime on him and neither did Tina. The Waitress left the stage yelling something about her manager!

It was a funny opening to what blurred into a dreamy show. Just Vic and his guitar for the first few songs, then he was joined by two other musicians who harmonized beautifully. His voice was like a powerful buzz saw cutting through the din of the bar. So much character and foul mouthed commentary emanating from such a seemingly fragile frame. My memory of the performance itself is watery and gleaming. It was like being galvanized. The complete environment surrounding me with color and sound. At it's center was this giant personality who played for months on repeat in my room, now singing songs right in front of me. I had fallen hard for "Little" and a handful of songs off "About to Choke" used as a soundtrack for many of dancer/writer/choreographer Buffy Miller's performances.

It was a life changing experience and a rare treat to escape from my bandmates and have such a magical experience. It was in the cards for me that night to see Vic play and I will hold that memory for as long as I can.

"may your days be merry and bright" -Irving Berlin

2009-12-23T10:12:00.000-08:00

My friend Tom explained that Irving Berlin wrote the song White Christmas while staying in Arizona during the holidays. We were sitting around our little tree singing christmas tunes and the words to that song in particular feel real. I love the idea of this man sitting in sweltering heat wishing for snow as I sit in arctic Maine also wishing for snow.

fall into winter

2009-11-06T13:22:00.000-08:00

new images for a new season...

DTTR New release! Brother Oak 10/10/09

2009-09-10T18:35:00.000-07:00

The final days of swimming in ice cold Maine water, (while it's actually sweltering outside) are over and we have been very verrry verrry busy! Amidst work, school, bills, pumpkins, recording, birthdays, camping, apple picking, dancing and dishes we here at Dontrustheruin Records have come out with a gorgeous new release. Brother Oak is our brother in life and music. He shines...
Fall is here!

Last weekend we saw...

2009-08-20T14:55:00.000-07:00

Below are photos from The Waterfall Arts Festival in Montville, Maine
12,000 Trees

What Cheer? Brigade rocked the RO HE GE Barn and made us all shake our tail feathers

Uke of Space County Corners crooned and bloomed--always with the most beautiful voices and sounds. They are my absolute favorite band to listen to --on record and live!

We played almost all new stuff and improvised alot

Daniel Higgs conjured and testified by the fire fumbling for light in the dark.

The shows were awesome and exhausting, the people we met and walked with and talked to ruled.

Daniel Higgs

Thank you to our hosts Dan, Amy, Drew, Rose, Andy and Claire.

NO shows till October but planty of music coming out on Time lag, DTTR and more.

Below are photos from The Waterfall Arts Festival in Montville, Maine

Come see us play in Belfast, Maine 14 th & 16th or Portland on the 17th

2009-08-13T18:52:00.001-07:00

Photos by Sita Magnuson Conway Barn show, Western, Mass

terribly exciting...three shows with Daniel Higgs

2009-08-09T14:52:00.000-07:00

For those of you who don't know Daniel Higgs, he is the wordsmith and voice of Lungfish and The Pupils. His poetry and art have been published worldwide. Higgs is a visionary artist whose presence and performances inspire very strong reactions. I link the title of the blog..just click on it will ye!

First show August 14th...Friday Festivities ....BIG Big nite at RO HE GE

12 Mill Ln Belfast, Maine

Higgs & Echolepsy

Big Blood

Uke of Spacial Corners

Over a Cardboard Sea

What Cheer Brigade!

Starts at 7PM

Sunday show at Waterfall Arts

RAIN OR SHINE!!!!

SUN AUG 16th

12-12:45pm Belfast Bay Fiddlers

1-1:45pm 12,000 Trees

2-2:45pm Perpetual E-Motion

3-3:45pm BIG BLOOD
4-4:45pm FRIGATE
5-6pm DANIEL HIGGS

@ WATERFALL ARTS KINGDOM FALLS
52 KINGDOM ROAD MONTVILLE MAINE 04941

time-lag records presents:

MONDAY, AUGUST 17th

DANIEL HIGGS
BILL NACE
BIG BLOOD
ASA IRONS

@ the apohadion, 107 hanover st., portland maine. 8pm. $5.00

Tapes Rule

2009-07-11T18:56:00.000-07:00

Holy tapes that look and sound good!

Our friends and compadres from Athens, Greece a.k.a.Reverse Mouth totally rule!! One member, Panagiotis runs a label here. He put a lovely tape version of our album The Grove about a year ago. I just love his taste in paper and print.

We played two shows with Reverse Mouth two weeks ago at a barn in Conway, Mass withHorse Spirit Penetrates(love love love 'em), a solo performance from Human Adult Band which stole my heart, and Michael Jackson--michael thomas jackson that is. (I have to add a side note...I truly hate the formatting, messaging and pop up freak-out-ness of myspace. However the upside of that ruinous marketing tool is that we can all go to these band sites and hear what people are doing right now... and for that i am sort of thankful.)

i drew during almost all of the sets at the barn show.

Thanks to Kieran for his superior hospitality, HSP's killer set, and bear hugginess. We stayed up waaaay to late--not being parents just music-cans, riding the crazy frenetic moshing energy of the night and taking cracks at lame contemporary singers while defending Sade, thanks to the late night crew.

The pawtucket show was more serious and somber. we wer lucky to play with Uke of spaces and lucky they played on our set. Soo many friends came out it was overwhelming and awesome. I forgot my camera or maybe i left it at home on purpose. Here's the scrawling diary like snapshots of our two day "tour".

maybe this link will make you laugh...click on it

2009-06-23T17:33:00.000-07:00

DTTR's been busy...

we heart WFMU and WFMU hearts Big Blood here

our friend Patrick set up our home base at the archives where you can download alot of albums here

We are actually playing two shows out of town!!! One in Western Mass and another in Pawtucket, RI

go here for details

sun

2009-06-13T23:01:00.000-07:00

New DTTR Releases that we loooove

2009-05-12T18:05:00.000-07:00

Good to be home!

We are getting ready for a relaxing summer… hopefully…

Anyway… we just released 4 new albums two by us, Already Gone I & II and here's the deal on the other two...

dttr #015 Inspector 22 “The Waiting Grave”

Inspector 22 is the brainchild of Todd Wesley Emmert. Residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, “The Waiting Grave” is the follow up to IRNI which we released a little over a year ago. IRNI was one of our all time favorites… but we gotta say “The Waiting Grave” is even better. It kills. To hear somebody hit "it" on every song is just mind-blowing; needless to say we are big fans.

The song ‘Cannibal’ could be an all time classic. Really you could say that about every song on this album. We can’t recommend it enough.

dttr#016 Accident Child – “Into the Gorge”

Before we started doing the DTTR label we were both finding ourselves only listening to music of the past. For one, there’s so much great music that has come and gone, and truthfully it was getting harder and harder to relate to music happening today. So one of the greatest things for us to do is to release music we love, by people living today… peers, friends etc. “Into the Gorge” came to us through a CD trade and man were we hooked right from the beginning, We played this one over and over on our car rides this past summer.

Matt Norris is Accident Child. If you had to describe it, loner folk would be as good a term as any. Reminds us a bit of Tuli from The Fugs or King Darves. A real intimate listen. “Into the Gorge” plays out like a life story, from birth to present. Matt’s words sneak up on you and tell their story with a delivery akin to the masters. This one is a real gem!

All 4 new dontrustheruin releases can be ordered from

here, here, and here

In other news, we, Big Blood have finished up an album for Time-Lag called “Dead Songs”, another for the label Peasant Magik called “Operators and Things”, and a tape for Cabin Floor Esoterica called “Night Terrors in the Isle of Louis Hardin” all due out…. well who knows… but that’s the word!

Recommended listening – Exuma, Our Poor Neighbors, Garm, Brother Oak, Uke of Spaces, Radikal Satan, Kletka Red, Missy Elliott.

ohhhhh vacation and back

2009-05-09T17:35:00.000-07:00

Already Gone I & II

2009-04-26T18:33:00.000-07:00

Here's the newest news...

Updates for those of you looking forward to our new double disc ...we have finished printing the covers, inserts and extras. We've assembled and packed them all up and they look very nice if we do say so ourselves.

WFMU wants Big Blood and our new cds on their new Free Music Archives feature article. If you don't know about WFMU is a terrific station in New Jersey that has killer dj's and programs that you can download for free. Our new cds and the whole Big Blood catalogue will also be available for download through the Free Music Archives.

Time Lag will be getting the hard copies by May 15th as well as North East Indie and Tomentosa Records.

Live in Lewiston thanks to Grace

2009-04-23T18:49:00.001-07:00

B is for bandicoot I is for Ibis

2009-04-22T19:07:00.000-07:00

Sovereignty you...

2009-04-11T18:52:00.000-07:00

Busy busy couple of weeks...and we still have one more show to go!

Big Blood plays Guthries on April 17th in Lewiston with Jessy Kendall and Denise Dill. We were asked to play because a friend of ours JK asked us-- and filmmaker Craig Saddlemire used our song Sovereignty You Bitch for a soundtrack to his film "Neighbor by Neighbor", a documentary about a 'visible community's fight' to be heard. Sovereignty You bitch is here thanks to Patrick. A link to hear and download Sovereignty

Tower of Song was wonderful... thank you to Alicia and Will for patiently waiting for us to get ourselves together enough to leave the house. Quinnisa had a great time too. What's not to love about playing up high in a tower among friends while your kiddo claps and even sings along to your cover of The Cult.

relative-ity

2009-03-31T16:28:00.000-07:00

Our Thanks to everybody who came out on Sunday night for the Meg Perry Center Benefit. Attar Cups were absolutely lovely...Uke of Spaces Corners were f-ing magical! Their friend Caleb played french horn, guitar.

We had post-show late night jams that made all the pre-show stress worth it!

We had a great time playing and singing our faces off. Our set consisted of mostly new tunes written for the show soon to be out on our very own Dontrustheruin records. Caleb covered Missy Elliot's "Pussy Don't Fail Me Now". I played two songs "New Eyes" and "Dreadful Hope" off of our upcoming Time Lag release.

Speaking of new releases...
Our newest CD-R wont be posted for another week. Caleb is responsible for this...he doesn't like the quicky home made Cdr we put together for the night of the show. I handmade 15 covers and sold out of 'em all. So those are the only ones out there. We are getting together a double cd for the Tower of Song show this Friday.

We play Guthries Lewiston, Me on April 17th.

(more details as they come)

All of our releases are available at our friend Paul's distro North East Indie.

He's fully stocked up as of today!

Thanks to Lee lee for taking fotos of us and showing your killer art.

countdown(to fun)

2009-03-23T23:42:00.000-07:00

5 days until the Meg Perry Center show with Uke and Attar Cups and our new CD-R!

2 days until we play Portsmouth radio !

9 days until we play tower of song!

Barbed Beauties

2009-03-13T18:33:00.000-07:00

The Violent Femmes were playing on our local radio station yesterday. . The bass player's amazing spazzy lines and Gordon Gano's strained PMS-ee vocals ripped right to the bone. The raw, surreal and the real of their music brought up the idea/luxury of making music and art on your own terms. About aspirations to make beautiful and deadly marks on paper and sounds in the air. Deadly as in exposing a truth.
Although I am seduced by beauty everyday . I believe it comes at a sharp and terrible price and so nothing --for me, can be just beautiful. My most powerful experiences with art and music are where the dark and dirty meet the opulescent beauty. Briefly exposed to sunlight in a burst of fire but never changing the works inherent grit.

music on this thing!

2009-03-11T10:02:00.000-07:00

can anyone out there help us put our music up on this blog or link to downloads?

We want to put all our stuff up since grown so ugly has been taking a break from the bloggosphere.

Friends and blog 'followers' already have alot of our stuff up on the interweb. So instead of repeating them I'll just link you to them. That way you can see their sits and download big blood and hear it all from people who actually like the music not write the music!

Here's Captain Groovy's site The Real Nitty Gritty
and Peter html whiz The Pessimist Club

Eventually we'll probbly post our stuff but for now we'll start with some tunes you may not have heard...coming soon.

We do play out...sometimes

2009-03-11T08:17:00.000-07:00

like on March 20 at Space we assist our friend and musician Chriss Sutherland as he releases his solo CD "Worried Love".

On March 29th at Meg Perry Center in Portland with Uke of Spaces & Attar Cups.

On April 3rd for the Tower of Song on Congress St.

Big Blood doing "Hangman" @ Danimal's in NOHO

Big Blood and Visitations doing Blondie's "Heart of Glass"at Wickermania 3

under the tent at Shannon & Bev's.

Thanks to Sita Magnuson for the use of the photos

wonderful and terrible sounds

2009-03-11T07:07:00.000-07:00

speaking of, have you heard these sounds?

Uke of Spaces Corners are on tour right now! This terrific pair of human beans make exquisitely lovely human folk music that truly make us happy.

Inspector 22 has a killer release coming out on our label. All about death and cannibals and more dark and awesome things.

Our Poor Neighbors have our heart in his hands.

"Such wonderful and terrible sounds I is hearing!" he said. "Some of them you would never wish to be hearing yourself! But some is like glorious music!" His face was beautiful in its blaze of emotions.
Roald Dahl, The BFG

what the future brings...

2009-03-09T22:30:00.000-07:00

We are working on one if not two Big Blood new releases for our upcoming show at the Meg Perry Center on March 29th in Portland, Maine.

We have an actual piece of vinyl coming out on Time Lag Records with new Big Blood songs.

Unitl then here's an older video of Vitamin C live here.

(Thanks to Peter for the html heads up!)

the fear that comes when you are not making...

2009-03-09T19:40:00.000-07:00

[...When I don't write, there is a very strange moment when I go to sleep. At that moment in a sort of half sleep, all of a sudden I'm terrified by what I'm doing. I tell myself: "you are crazy to write this", and there is a kind of panic in my subconcious...How I interpret this is: when I am awake working, in a certain way I am more unconscious than in my half sleep. When I'm in that half sleep there is a kind of vigilance that tells me what I am doing is very serious. But when I am awake and working the vigilance is actually asleep. It's not the stronger of the two. And so I do what must be done.] Jaques Derrida, interview

the link is in the blog post title

a link to a great link to a great link

2009-03-09T16:04:00.000-07:00

A nice guy who wrote alot of nice things about us detailed twang

Our favorite station in Jersey and beyond WFMU

Music we love and put out on Dontrustheruin Records

2009-03-09T14:18:00.000-07:00

Dontrustheruin Records is just us. We started up out of necessity wanting to self publish our own music without having to move a record through a label. We do everything ourselves with the exception of selling the discs through some friendly low key distributors. We ask our friends and favorite living musicians if we can put out their music. Then we hand screen-print covers and Cd-R's, package them all up real nice and send the music out all over the world. Whoever writes us gets a CD-r if they are patient enough.

Here are some of our releases: (Grown So Ugly blogspot has almost all of our releases available for down load in addition to reviews and other links. I can't figure out how to make Html tags yet so you must do the searching....if you know how to, please tell us)

DTTR012 Big Blood & the Bleedin Hearts

DTTR011 Uke of Spaces Corners - Watershed

DTTR010 Inspector 22 - IRNI

DTTR009 Big Blood - The Grove

DTTR006 &007 Big Blood - Sew your Wild Days Vol 1 & 2

DTRR008 Garm - Zeros

DTTR005 Big Blood - Sahara Club & Space Gallery 1.27.07

DTTR004 Big Blood - Strange Maine 1.21.07

DTTR003 Big Blood - Strange Maine 11.04.06

DTTR001 Asian Mae - Collsing

write us here or contact us through our email address bigblood24@yahoo.com

Big Blood falls for a thousand years...

2009-03-08T22:23:00.000-07:00

begin the begin,

...and the noise of sound hitting the ground

and the winds we wheeze with ease

and in every finale the bang is around me

we explode with the sound and the sea

singing our family's song

big blood rolls on